Tag: empty stadiums
NCAA Basketball 2019-20 Attendance, Week 3: Ballroom Bonanza
We’re closing in on Thanksgiving, and that means basketball in Caribbean resort’s ballrooms. Average attendance was down from 4,708 to 4,556, but we had a range of attendances from below 100 to over 22,000. Without further ado, let’s take a look: Number of games drawing fewer than 1,000 fans: 77 (Season total: 184) Here are…
NCAA Football 2019 Attendance, Week 13: Lowest FBS and FCS Attendance of the Year
Week 13 saw average attendance stay flat at 22,542 from 22,203 across all of Division I, the level where it had been for the few weeks prior to last week. This week we had three games under 1,000 fans, including one barely above 500. Let’s take a look at how everyone else fared, shall we?…
NCAA Basketball 2019-20 Attendance, Week 2: Neutral Site Fun
It’s the first week of the regular season and basketball is finally here. Average attendance was down from 4,991 to 4,708, but we had a range of attendances from below 100 to over 22,000. Without further ado, let’s take a look: Number of games drawing fewer than 1,000 fans: 64 (Season total: 107) Here are…
NCAA Football 2019 Attendance, Week 8: Rainy October Saturdays in the South
Week eight saw average attendance rise slightly 24,044 from 23,922 across all of Division I, even with rain dominating the southeast on Saturday. Even still, some teams struggled to draw more than 20,000 in FBS last week. Let’s take a look at how everyone else fared, shall we? Worst overall Division I attendance: 1,158 –…
NCAA Football 2019 Attendance, Week 7: SEC! SEC!
Week seven saw average attendance drop from 24,777 to 23,922 across all of Division I, even with with LSU and A&M hosting more than 100,000 folks, with a much better result in Death Valley than at Kyle Field for the home fans. With that, the SEC took both the top and bottom of attendance for…
NCAA Football 2019 Attendance, Week 6: Over Capacity
Week six saw average attendance drop from 25,909 to 24,777 across all of Division I, helped by a couple of games that were over 150% of stadium capacity in the Northeast. Don’t tell the fire marshall! Let’s take a look at how everyone else fared, shall we? Worst overall Division I attendance: 1,328 – Arkansas-Pine Bluff…
MLB 2019 Ejections, Attendance & Weather – Week of 9/30: Season Finale
The regular season has ended, and with it this year’s BTBS. Thanks for tuning in this year, and expect a slightly different format going forward. Anyway, the Rays clinched a playoff spot this wek while also having the lowest attended game of the week. They were also joined by five other teams in being outdrawn…
NCAA Football 2019 Attendance, Week 4: FSU Fans Fed Up
Week three saw average attendance drop from 28,896 to 24,173 across all of Division I, another step down from the first three weeks of the season as one would expect. It’s worth noting that D2 Truman State hosted Valparaiso last week, and managed not only to outdraw ten other FCS games, but absolutely stomped the…
MLB 2019 Ejections, Attendance & Weather – Week of 9/23: Penultimate!
The season is drawing down and as teams are eliminated from playoff contention (Sorry Boston!), attendance slowly sinks away. As the Orioles complete a terrible 2019, it’s no surprise they ended up with the lowest attendance of the week, while also being outdrawn by the AAA playoffs: MLB teams outdrawn by AAA teams: Baltimore (4 games),…
MLB 2019 Ejections, Attendance & Weather – Week of 9/16: Windy Pirates
The Pirates played in the two windiest games of the week, the first in Chicago and the second in San Francisco. Neat! Meanwhile, the Marlins hosted the Brewers, and no more than 8,000 showed up for any game in the series. In fact, The Rockies highest attended game had more than twice of the entire…
NCAA Football 2019 Attendance, Week 2: Two in a Row in Pullman
Week two saw average attendance of 31,002 across all of Division I, a step down from the first week of the season as one would expect. The biggest home crowd to see a loss has been set at 98,763 as Texas came up short at home against LSU on Saturday. As for the rest of…
MLB 2019 Ejections, Attendance & Weather – Week of 9/9: Playoff Teams With Sub-6k Crowds
If the season were to end today, the Tampa Bay Rays would host the AL Wild Card game, yet they managed to only draw 5,962 fans to a game last week. That was the lowest of any team in MLB in the past seven days, despite the playoff implications that every September game has in…